diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/datapoint/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/datapoint/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b5d86acf2a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/datapoint/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, appdirs
+, pytz
+, requests
+, pytestCheckHook
+, requests-mock
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "datapoint";
+  version = "0.9.8";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ejep";
+    repo = "datapoint-python";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-YC8KFTv6lnCqMfDw1LSova7XBgmKbR3TpPDAAbH9imw=";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    appdirs
+    pytz
+    requests
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    requests-mock
+  ];
+
+  pytestFlagsArray = [ "tests/unit" ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "datapoint" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Python interface to the Met Office's Datapoint API";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/ejep/datapoint-python";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ dotlambda ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index dec038f9692..5570a29e784 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2083,6 +2083,8 @@ in {
 
   datamodeldict = callPackage ../development/python-modules/datamodeldict { };
 
+  datapoint = callPackage ../development/python-modules/datapoint { };
+
   dataset = callPackage ../development/python-modules/dataset { };
 
   datasets = callPackage ../development/python-modules/datasets { };